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but it reminded me I never got back here to report that it effectively fixed the issue I saw, the system is running sync fine now

wow, great.

Will try this as soon as I can.

thanks!

@Zenju (I saw your short reply) is there a way to debug if FFS is trying to use VSS or not?

Finally had time to investigate again...

The error that FFS gives is (sorry, the system runs Dutch version):

fout: Kan het bestand "C:\Users\Joris\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst" niet lezen.
Foutcode 33: Het proces heeft geen toegang tot het bestand omdat een gedeelte van het bestand ...

oh, I may have had that one off so that would explain something already. Thanks!

I didn't see any of those things mentioned so that's already something to check.
Thanks for that link, too

My timing for posting the question was a bit stupid as I'm off for a short break. I'll report back when I can have another go at this!

Thanks for your input

yes, FFS is configured correctly in the options, and started as admin (using right-click, and the windows security question comes up as expected)

Yes, and I think it doesn't apply to Win10, as stated in the KB:

Note This article is not for use with Windows Vista, with Windows Server 2008, or with later operating systems. Starting with Windows Vista and with Windows Server 2008, Windows component installation is manifest based. If you try to ...

After a sync there's an error box telling me some files were not synced, and those are outlook files. There is no other error coming up.

Verified that volume shadow service is running
FFS is started as admin
Windows 10 (sadly)

When outlook doesn't run the copy works. But this setup will get ...